泰晤士(TIMES)四合院儿

One (Composer: Marvin Hamlisch)

One singular sensation
Every little step he takes
One thrilling combination
Every move that he makes
One smile and suddenly nobody else will do
You know you'll never be lonely with you-know-who

One moment in his presence
And you can forget the rest
For the guy is second best to none, son
Ooh! Sigh! Give him your attention
Do I really have to mention?
He's the one

She walks into a room, and you know she's
Uncommonly rare, very unique
Peripatetic, poetic and chic
She walks into a room, and you know from her
Maddening poise, effortless whirl
She's a special girl, strolling
Can't help all of her qualities, extolling
Loaded with charisma is my
Jauntily sauntering, ambling shambler

She walks into a room, and you know you must
Shuffle along, join the parade
She's the quintessence of making the grade
This is what you call traveling
Oh, strut your stuff
Can't get enough of her
Love her
I'm a son-of-a-gun
She is one-of-a-kind

One singular sensation
Every little step she takes
One thrilling combination
Every move that she makes
One smile and suddenly nobody else will do
You know you'll never be lonely with you-know-who

One moment in her presence
And you can forget the rest
For the girl is second best to none, son
Ooh! Sigh! Give her your attention
Do I really have to mention?
She's the one

J.H. Wang wrote:

wherestip wrote:

QHE wrote:
“An Art or a Math Problem?”

QHE,

For the basic stuff we're talking about (in our examples), it looks to me like a math problem that hasn't been solved.

Just for grins, I plugged in a few more English and Chinese sentences, and came out with similar poor results. And these were neither obscure nor artificial sentences made up to stump the machine, just some random everyday sentences off the top of my head.


[Edited at 2015-08-27 00:04 GMT]

当然，这属于一门比较特殊的数学，也就是主要涉及语言分析、逻辑运算的数学。我想，这也是为什么会出现计算语言学这门学科的原因。

J.H.,

我觉得人们的思维推理方式各有迥异，语言表达方式也是千变万化；所以对同样的事物是不存在绝对 “标准化” 的自然语言表达形式。

而机器目前只能按人为设定的标准规则和程序执行所谓的翻译，这对转换那些可以 “标准化” 的 sublanguage 是会有帮助；但是 translation algorithm/model 还远远不能处理一般性的自然语言翻译(如 Steve 在前面指出的)。所以我认为机器对不同语言的转换是数学问题；而自然语言翻译本身更具有艺术色彩。